96TWI65-604 governs deferrals, customer funds, and procedures for handling work and expenses when customer funding is insufficient.
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It defines deferrals, addresses direct and reimbursable budget authority, and establishes limits for different customer types. It requires customer funding before work, with documented exceptions for certain DoD emergencies.
Applies to: It applies to Operating Budget Accounting Numbers (OBAN) managed by the Financial Analysis Division (96 TW/FMA).
A deferral is the consequence of actions that result in an over-commitment, overobligation, or over-expenditure of customer funds available for the testing effort at hand. (paragraph 1)
Customer funds must be received prior to initiating work. (paragraph 2)
Reimbursable work should not be started before an order is known to exist and reimbursable work should not continue against an existing order when there is a lack of customer funds. (paragraph 2)
In an emergency, for Department of Defense (DoD) customers only, work may continue based upon the customer’s promise of funds. (paragraph 2)
In this situation, and any other that requires work in excess of funding received, the performing activity commander or at the commander’s designation, the comptroller or comparable official may approve continuing work in excess of customer funds by completing a deferral letter in LiveLink which contains JON and justification of why customer funding has not been received, test has exceeded customer funding, when funding is expected and the estimated dollar amount. (paragraph 2)